Since your python has been eating regularly, there is no need to worry about it starving in a week or two. Therefore, I'd wait until you get back from vacation to offer it a thawed rat. If you are lucky, it will just eat it and that will be that. If not, I'd let it go on a hunger strike for a while, offering it a thawed rat once a week (make sure it has plenty of water). You can try the usual stuff, like rubbing a mouse on it to give it the scent that your BP likes, or dipping it in chicken broth (you can read them all in the old posts, and they all work for some snakes and not for others), but I'd just let the desire to eat run its course. I have a perfectly healthy Jungle Carpet Python that went on an extended hunger strike to protest the switch to rats (many Jungles don't like them). That was years ago, and she's eaten rats ever since. A snake that isn't really all that hungry can afford to be picky, one that hasn't had a meal in a while has to take what nature (or its keeper) offers.



Good luck

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